Sermon on the Mount II The Beatitudes Mt 5.112

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Sermon on the Mount (II)The BeatitudesMt 5.1-12
Our (Be)Attitudes Toward God Mt 5.3-6
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Two Groups

• The 1st Four Preparation of our character toward
  God
• Blessed are the poor in spirit
• Blessed are those who mourn
• Blessed are the meek
• Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for
  righteousness

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Two Groups

• The 2nd four Presentation of our character
  toward others
• Blessed are the merciful
• Blessed are the pure in heart
• Blessed are the peacemakers
• Blessed are those who are persecuted for
  righteousness

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Blessed Are Poor In Spirit

• Those who are not self-sufficient, but
  self-deficient
• Realizing our own unrighteousness
• Knowing our own unworthiness
• Recognizing our helpless and destitute condition

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Blessed Are Those Who Mourn

• Those who are not self-satisfied, but
  broken-hearted.

Ps 51.3-4,17 For I know my transgressions, And
my sin is ever before me. Against You, You only,
I have sinned And done what is evil in Your
sight, So that You are justified when You speak
And blameless when You judge. The sacrifices of
God are a broken spirit A broken and a contrite
heart, O God, You will not despise.
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Blessed Are Those Who Mourn

• Those who are not self-satisfied, but
  broken-hearted.
• Blessedfor they shall be comforted

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Blessed Are The Meek

• Those who are not self-willed, but
  self-surrendered.
• Not unrelated to repentance

2 Cor 78-10 For though I caused you sorrow by
my letter, I do not regret it though I did
regret it for I see that that letter caused you
sorrow, though only for a while I now rejoice,
not that you were made sorrowful, but that you
were made sorrowful to the point of repentance
for you were made sorrowful according to the will
of God, so that you might not suffer loss in
anything through us. For the sorrow that is
according to the will of God produces a
repentance without regret, leading to salvation,
but the sorrow of the world produces death.
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Blessed Are The Meek

• Those who are not self-willed, but
  self-surrendered.
• Strength under control of another
• Moses

Num 123 (Now the man Moses was very humble
(meek), more than any man who was on the face of
the earth.)
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Blessed Are The Meek

• Those who are not self-willed, but
  self-surrendered.
• Strength under control of another
• Jesus

Mt 1128-30 Come to Me, all who are weary and
heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My
yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle
and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR
YOUR SOULS. For My yoke is easy and My burden is
light.
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Blessed Are The Meek

• Those who are not self-willed, but
  self-surrendered.
• Strength under control of another
• Jesus

1 Pet 221-23 For you have been called for this
purpose, since Christ also suffered for you,
leaving you an example for you to follow in His
steps, WHO COMMITTED NO SIN, NOR WAS ANY DECEIT
FOUND IN HIS MOUTH and while being reviled, He
did not revile in return while suffering, He
uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself
to Him who judges righteously
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Blessed Are The Meek

• Those who are not self-willed, but
  self-surrendered.
• As toward God, so toward one another

Phil 22-8 make my joy complete by being of the
same mind, maintaining the same love, united in
spirit, intent on one purpose. Do nothing from
selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility
of mind regard one another as more important than
yourselves do not merely look out for your own
personal interests, but also for the interests of
others. Have this attitude in yourselves which
was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He
existed in the form of God, did not regard
equality with God a thing to be grasped, but
emptied Himself, taking the form of a
bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of
men. Being found in appearance as a man, He
humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point
of death, even death on a cross.
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Blessed Are The Meek

• Those who are not self-willed, but
  self-surrendered.
• As toward God, so toward one another

1 Cor 919-23 For though I am free from all men,
I have made myself a slave to all, so that I may
win moreTo the weak I became weak, that I might
win the weak I have become all things to all
men, so that I may by all means save some. I do
all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I
may become a fellow partaker of it.
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Blessed Are The Meek

• Those who are not self-willed, but
  self-surrendered.
• Shall inherit the earth

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Blessed Are Those Who Hunger and Thirst for
Righteousness

• Those who are not apathetic, but spiritually
  driven.

Psa 421-2 As the deer pants for the water
brooks, So my soul pants for You, O God. My soul
thirsts for God, for the living God When shall I
come and appear before God?
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Blessed Are Those Who Hunger and Thirst for
Righteousness

• Those who are not apathetic, but spiritually
  driven.

Phil 37-15 But whatever things were gain to me,
those things I have counted as loss for the sake
of Christ. More than that, I count all things to
be loss in view of the surpassing value of
knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have
suffered the loss of all things, and count them
but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, and may be
found in Him, not having a righteousness of my
own derived from the Law, but that which is
through faith in Christ, the righteousness which
comes from God on the basis of faith, that I may
know Him and the power of His resurrection and
the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed
to His death in order that I may attain to the
resurrection from the dead.
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Blessed Are Those Who Hunger and Thirst for
Righteousness

• Those who are not apathetic, but spiritually
  driven.
• For they shall be satisfied

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Our (Be)Attitudes Toward God

• Blessed Are Poor In Spirit
• Blessed Are Those Who Mourn
• Blessed Are The Meek
• Blessed Are Those Who Hunger and Thirst for
  Righteousness